Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Smith, Melchert June 30, 1818 -
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Nan Starjak http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006329 November 28, 2008, 8:28 pm
Author: Hardin & Willard
Smith, Melchert, Herkimer, is a native of Herkimer and has been a farmer in
the same locality all his life. Mr. Smith is seventy-four years of age,
having been born June 30, 1818. He owns one hundred acres of land and has
twenty-four cows in his fields. His father, Adam Smith, also resided here,
and went to Canada in the war of 1812. About 1840 Mr. Smith married Mary E.
Harter, and they have seven children. Mr. Smith has voted for fifty-two years
and has never missed a town meeting or an election. His only son, Morgan, is
married to Miss Ida Churchill. Mr. Smith is a Democrat and has always voted
that ticket.
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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.
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